Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1887-02-18
ST.. PAUL, MINI, Feb. Is, 1887.

-s ST. PAUL, MINI, Feb. Is, 1887.
In the Senate this morning an old score
was opened by Senator Bowen, who offered
resolutions to expunge from the records of
the Senate and the House the proceedings
Of the high court of impeachment, which
six years ago impeached e. st. Julian Cox.
Judge Cox and his friends have always
claimed that there was good deal of pOlit-
ical feeling in the matter of his impeach-
ment, but waving that question such YER
dict naturally places him under cloud and
amount to little more than a relief Of his
personal feelings. The general sentiment
as expressed in the Senate was favor
able to the resolutions and as a matter of
fact there seems to be no reasonable ground
to oppose them. The object of the impeach-
ment was to remove him from his judicial
position. That being accomplished do
not imagine that even those who were the
most active in the procedure would care
to oppose these resolutions as it would
now SAVIOR of personal persecution. The
resolutions went to the judiciary COM
mittee.
The question Of removing the Capitol and
of building a new State House came up
in double form. Mr.. Reese's resolution
providing for a committee to report on the
expediency of removing it to Kandiyohi
county was mirthtully passed the house
D.
rious movement, however, in the shape Of a
bill appointing commission to consider the
question of repairing the old building or
procuring q new site and building new
State House was introduced by Mr.. Knox.
This commission consists Of r. A. Smith of
Barto Of Sank Centre, Ignatius Donnelly
of Dakota and Senator Edwards of
Fillmore. The blu went to tbs &
nance committee and will probably pass.
st. Paul win give the block on the south
front.o the present ground vacating the
street between the present block and the
new one. This will make very fine site
for new Capitol if the legislature should
decide to go ahead with the matter. The
architects who have been repairing the
building report that $25, 900 should be appro-
griated for repairs and $4,000 for new
There was the usual food of bills particu.
larly in the House. In the Senate thirteen
were introduced and seven passed. In the
House thirty seven were Introduced and
twenty-five passed. This was rather en-
couraging as there has not been day that
the session began Is this
record shows with the exception
Of one bill for the assessment and collection
Of taxes every one of the bills passed by
beth branches referred to some specific
town or county, The general Legislation
! outside of the high license bill nozgenera
measure of Importance has been passed
All the grain warehouse and railroad bill:
| are still hanging fire, being tied up il
committees and unless some one unite!
them pretty soon there will be no legisla
ton on these subjects at all. The question
Of annual sessions came up again in tn,
House when the bill providing fol
biennial session of ninety days was OF
its third reading. An attempt was made tt
| strike out the word bsennial and insert tn,
word annual, making the aenual session
sixty-fve days. After considerable parlia
mentary skirmishing the bill went back K
the judiciary committee for amendment.